Moving shocks through metallic grids: their interaction and potential for blast wave mitigation

Numerical simulations and laboratory measurements have been used to illuminate the interaction of a moving shock wave impacting on metallic grids at various shock strengths and grid solidities. The experimental work was carried out in a large scale shock tube facility while computational work simulated the flow field with a time-dependent inviscid and a time-dependent viscous model. The pressure drop measured across the grids is a result of two phenomena which are associated with the impact of the shock on the metallic grids. First are the reflection and refraction of the incoming shock on the grid itself. This appears to be the main inviscid mechanism associated with the reduction of the strength of the transmitted shock. Second, viscous phenomena are present during the reflection and refraction of the wave as well as during the passage of the induced flow of the air through the grid. The experimental data of pressure drop across the grid obtained in the present investigation are compared with those obtained from computations. The numerical results slightly overpredict the experimental data of relative pressure drop which increases substantially with grid solidity at fixed flow Mach numbers. The processes of shock reflection and refraction are continuous and they can be extended in duration by using thicker grids that will result in lower compression rates of the structural loading and increase the viscous losses associated with these phenomena which will further attenuate the impacting shock. Preliminary theoretical analysis suggests that the use of a graded porosity/solidity material will result in higher pressure drop than a constant porosity/solidity material and thus provide effective blast mitigation.      

Cone characterization of Grothendieck spaces and Banach spaces containing <Emphasis Type="Italic">c</Emphasis><Subscript>0</Subscript>

In this article we study the embeddability of cones in a Banach space X. First we prove that c ₀ is embeddable in X if and only if its positive cone c₀⁺{c_0^+} is embeddable in X and we study some properties of Banach spaces containing c ₀ in the light of this result. So, unlike with the positive cone of ℓ ₁ which is embeddable in any non-reflexive space, c₀⁺{c_0^+} has the same behavior as the whole space c ₀. In the second part of this article we give a characterization of Grothendieck spaces X according to the geometry of cones of X*. By these results we give a partial positive answer to a problem of J.H. Qiu concerning the geometry of cones.     

Uo-convergence and its applications to Cesàro means in Banach lattices

A net (x _α ) in a vector lattice X is said to uo-converge to x if \(\left| {{x_\alpha } - x} \right| \wedge u\xrightarrow{o}0\) for every u ≥ 0. In the first part of this paper, we study some functional-analytic aspects of uo-convergence. We prove that uoconvergence is stable under passing to and from regular sublattices. This fact leads to numerous applications presented throughout the paper. In particular, it allows us to improve several results in [27, 26]. In the second part, we use uo-convergence to study convergence of Cesàro means in Banach lattices. In particular, we establish an intrinsic version of Komlós’ Theorem, which extends the main results of [35, 16, 31] in a uniform way. We also develop a new and unified approach to Banach–Saks properties and Banach–Saks operators based on uo-convergence. This approach yields, in particular, short direct proofs of several results in [20, 24, 25].     

Option spanning beyond $$L_p$$-models

The aim of this paper is to study the spanning power of options in a static financial market that allows non-integrable assets. Our findings extend and unify the results in Galvani (J Math Econ 45(1):73–79, 2009), Galvani and Troitsky (J Math Econ 46(4):616–619, 2010) and Nachman (Rev Financ Stud 1(3):311–328, 1988) for \(L_p\)-models. We also apply the spanning power properties to the pricing problem. In particular, we show that prices on call and put options of a limited liability asset can be uniquely extended by arbitrage to all marketed contingent claims written on the asset.     

Reflexive cones

Reflexive cones in Banach spaces are cones with weakly compact intersection with the unit ball. In this paper we study the structure of this class of cones. We investigate the relations between the notion of reflexive cones and the properties of their bases. This allows us to prove a characterization of reflexive cones in term of the absence of a subcone isomorphic to the positive cone of $\ell _{1}$ . Moreover, the properties of some specific classes of reflexive cones are investigated. Namely, we consider the reflexive cones such that the intersection with the unit ball is norm compact, those generated by a Schauder basis and the reflexive cones regarded as ordering cones in Banach spaces. Finally, it is worth to point out that a characterization of reflexive spaces and also of the spaces with the Schur property by the properties of reflexive cones is given.     

A local Hahn–Banach theorem and its applications

An important consequence of the Hahn–Banach theorem says that on any locally convex Hausdorff topological space X, there are sufficiently many continuous linear functionals to separate points of X. In the paper, we establish a “local” version of this theorem. The result is applied to study the uo-dual of a Banach lattice that was recently introduced in Gao et al. (Positivity 22(3):711–725, 2018). We also provide a simplified approach to the measure-free characterization of uniform integrability established in Kardaras (J Funct Anal 266:1913–1927, 2014).     

Duality for unbounded order convergence and applications

Unbounded order convergence has lately been systematically studied as a generalization of almost everywhere convergence to the abstract setting of vector and Banach lattices. This paper presents a duality theory for unbounded order convergence. We define the unbounded order dual (or uo-dual) \({X_{uo}^\sim }\) of a Banach lattice X and identify it as the order continuous part of the order continuous dual \({X_n^\sim }\). The result allows us to characterize the Banach lattices that have order continuous preduals and to show that an order continuous predual is unique when it exists. Applications to the Fenchel–Moreau duality theory of convex functionals are given. The applications are of interest in the theory of risk measures in Mathematical Finance.     

Molecular and structural analysis of a triepoxide‐modified poly(ethylene terephthalate) from rheological data

The effects of reactive melt modification of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) with a multifunctional epoxide—triglycidyl isocyanurate—that lead to chain extension/branching and formation of gel‐like structures were rheologically characterized. The storage and loss moduli and the complex viscosity of the modified PET were larger than those of the unmodified PET. The elastic or solidlike behavior of PET was enhanced after reactive modification as a result of chain extension/branching. Modified Cole–Cole plots revealed that the modified resins show higher elasticity than the unmodified one. Reactive modification characterized by the presence of long‐chain branching resulted in a wider molecular weight distribution. The effects of mixing temperature and the concentration of modifier corresponding to different stoichiometries were investigated. Higher amounts of modifier resulted in a polymeric structure near the sol–gel transition point whose linear viscoelastic properties obey scaling law. The relaxation spectrum was calculated from the oscillatory shear data by Tschoegl equations. Certain modified resins have rheological properties suitable for process operations such as extrusion foaming, blow molding, and thermoforming. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 41: 958–969, 2003